Dropping pieces of white paper into the river, Faraday found that they disappeared from view before sinking an inch below the surface.
There were so many fairness arguments that you really did expect Harry Reid to start walking down the aisle dropping pieces of toast in peoples' mouths.
"The meat-to-fat ratio is very important and so is the amount of lactic acid," he says, dropping pieces of top-round chuck and beef fat into a meat grinder.
By dragging and dropping pieces of content from almost any Web page, Octopus users can construct their own self-designed, real-time views of the Web.
Lying under the table knowing which human was tender hearted slyly dropping pieces of turkey into their waiting mouths.
He offers some inside stuff here -- there is a disquisition on the restaurant world's four-second rule, by which a dropped piece of food is allowed to stay on the floor four seconds before it is deemed too unsanitary to be served -- but most of the restaurant sequences are a familiar blend of slapstick and boorish male behavior.
For about five minutes the kitchen was a happy chaos of cheese and salami being put on plates; Dan McDermott being coached on which wine to open; Ms. Bello's father, Joe, popping in to see the bounty that had arrived; and one patient 9-month-old wheaten terrier puppy lolling around, hoping for a dropped piece of food.
Adopting a similar gesture, Rauschenberg dropped pieces of cloth on a lithography plate in 1974, and Cage dropped inked strings onto paper in 1980.
"In Japan a hibachi is a bowl of coals that you would use to heat your room, and you might drop pieces of paper or even cigarette ashes in it," said Jun Hashimoto of Korin.
It's almost like that famous trick where a magician drops pieces of rope into a hat, then pulls out the whole length intact: Scientists can now smuggle up to 17 snippets of DNA into a cell and--presto --out comes and--presto --outluenzand--presto --out
Todd compared the way campaigns drop pieces of "oppo" research on their rivals to "lighting a match and seeing if they can start a wildfire".
